As of late December, 2019, still no keep out zones. Takes forever to learn the floor plan and never does that really well. It appears to be lost a good portion of the time. Sent it back as generally ineffective at learning the floor. I agree with you that keep out zones are practically mandatory.
They came out with a new and improved version! We got it recently and it’s awesome. Vacuums our 1250 sq ft apartment in about 40 minutes and learned our floor plan easily.
Gotta agree that self emptying is the feature that makes the robot vacuum worth getting. It’s amazing to have your floors vacuumed everyday and not touch the robot for a month.
I'm going to have to call you out on something since you were involved with this vacuum... Love your channel so don't take this the wrong way please On your CFM test, you show the Shark Non AE vacuum at 23cfm looking like the highest ever... However it appears you conveniently left off the Deebot 950, which if I'm not mistaken was 24 cfm according to your test and top of the food chain in suction power. Just makes it look like you were trying to show Shark at the top of this chart.... Just sayin...
Not only this, the review sounds biased, even thou he wants it not to be. In all honesty, this needs more transparency, like showing us the tests being performed in full with the numbers facing the camera.
I have this robot and after 1 week I'm done with it. The app is awful and the mapping is just as bad. I have a small threshold in my kitchen that my neato d4 and roomba have no problem with. The shark gets stuck every time. Last thing is 9 times out of 10 it cant find it's way home. It even states a very short distance limit in the manual.
@@hightech2lowtech The dock/bin looks atrocious for the Shark. Roomba got that part right. The S9s dock/bin looks great in the living room. Does the Sharks dock/bin use a bag to collect dirt and debris? If not, that's another foul. Just looks like a mess.
Performance opinion aside, Shark having the intelligence and foresight to hire him as a design consultant is friggin' genius in itself.. plus the price to performance ratio here is a total homerun. Definitely won't be buying another robot without an auto empty base and no go mapping.. 👍👌✌
Navigation was alright it seems. I could have sworn I saw a higher CFM. However, I do mostly care about the auto empty. Even if it is worse than the other vacs, as long as it has autoempty at a cheaper price with smart navigation, it's tempting
Saw this specific vacuum on sale for Black Friday and mentioned it to my parents. Turns out they got it for us for Christmas for the new house. I think we have the second gen model, the 1101 series. This little thing works wonders. Picked up so much dirt and debris on the first go that it clogged the dust bin, so after cleaning it out and scheduling more frequent cleanings he’s been a trooper. Cleans the whole house in two 1 hour sessions with recharge and resume. The app is kind of a mess but the robot still works really well. Thanks for turning me on to this vacuum, Chris! Love the channel
Real review.... I have never bought any of the robot vacuums before. So when I seen this with less maintenance I went to the actual website. You get a 90 day money back gaurentee if you dont like it. So definitely sold me on it. It works great on flat floors. Carpet not so much the first try. It does great on the thinnest carpet. It gets stuck on any thicker carpet. And I thought my sons carpet was pretty thin. But it has to clean it several times to actually clean the grass pieces and dirt particles from his shoes. Over all I love it. I dont have to do anything with it except dump the bin every few days when it tells me to. And that's perfectly fine with me. We live out in the country and everytime someone walks in they track something in on my floors. I was sweeping 2 times or more a day. So saves me alot of work.
I have a normal Shark vacuum cleaner, and I love it. Their customer service is good. The first day I used my Shark vacuum, which was 4 years ago, I accidentally ran it over its own cable and it got chewed up by the agitator. I called Shark and they replaced the unit for me with no charge. I was so impressed!
Yeah and the Deebot can run at 24 CFM for 2.5 Hours!!! The Shark IQ = 23 CFM and Roomba S9 = 22 CFM can only run for an hour at their MAX power setting.
One technicality I recall being mentioned, was the CFM is not a stand alone comparison. Because where the suction meets the road, aka carpet vs bare floor is an issue. I believe RM said that's why Roombas are better on carpets, but others are better on bare floors (2 brush system and where the suction meets the floor)
Bought one, gave it almost 2 months, 40 cleans, several of the worst tech support calls ever- and have now sent it back. Terrible waste of time- would seem like it was learning our home for the first 6-8 runs, then would have major issues, not able to find its base, running off our stairs, map would invert/ change direction. Never mapped our home successfully. Have now ordered a Neato D7. Did receive an email from shark today that there would be a November software update to fix some issues- too little too late. Its best feature is the 90 day moneyback guarantee- you will need it.
Just got my shark today. I will be sending back my Roomba. The shark did a better job mapping the house and for the same price i paid for my roomba i get the self cleaning bin and mapping to where i can tell it go and clean specific areas. and the battery is way better. Ran about 1500 sqft on one charge. and still had about 30% left when i ran it on normal.
Picked this up on black Friday and am really happy with it so far! No complaints at all. The robot does a great job cleaning and I haven't had any issues with the app.
Great review i loved the under view so i could visibly see how well the side brushes fling stuff into it. The hair test was a big one for us as well as the sand test. We are sold
I disagree with your conclusion of this review, as someone with a Neato D5, no go lines are the most valuable feature of a robotic vacuum above a self emptying bin and the fact that at the time of this video it doesn't have them is a deal breaker. My train of thought is a robotic vacuum is no good if it can't finish cleaning your house due to getting stuck meaning who cares if it can vacuum 30 times without needing emptying if it can't get passed the first time. Plus on top of that we don't even know how well the no-go lines on the Shark will be since Roomba seems to be a step behind the lidar offerings. If Shark had advertised the feature as coming in q4 2019 or q1 2020 or something like that I might give it a pass but there isn't any information on shark's product page on their website or amazon about it. Also you didn't really discuss the app provided you might have in another video that i didn't see but I watch most of your robotic vacuum videos even though I'm not in the market lol. Side note: I think that it's awesome feat that Shark was willing to work with you and I appreciate you being open about that fact. I hope that more manufacturers decide to work with you as that is only going to make their products better which is better for consumers. If you start working with more manufactures my only suggestion is you need to be more open with what determines what is a good from a quantifiable standpoint such as category ratings in certain fields that you determine make a great vacuum so that way you can make sure that you cover every vacuum review in the same way. Your testing procedures I would argue are very consistent and part of why without a doubt in my mind I'd call you the best vacuum reviewer but your reviews need some added consistency in the sense of order and what they cover. If I were doing the ratings I'd give 40% cleaning, 40% navigation/completion reliability, 5% app quality and features, 15% build quality and hardware features. I've seen your reviews get better over the years and can't wait to see where you will be in the future! :)
Agreed. I've been shopping for one to replace my old Neato and one of my must haves is the no go line. I'm sick and tired of having to use and buy more of those strip boundaries. The auto empty I considered a nice to have, but mostly because before this vacuum the ones with auto empty made me completely reconsider my budget. I called Shark tech support today to ask if they knew anything about adding in a no go zone, and after painfully having to explain several times what that meant (guy kept thinking I was talking about naming rooms) he finally hung up on me. I would buy this vacuum today if it already had a no go zone feature, or if there was a guarantee that feature would be out by the end of 2019. I'd pay an extra $100 for the no go zone if I had to.
I agree. VW doesn't test for how higher end robovacs are usually used. Navigation and furniture damage are important issues in larger, more complex and expensive households. A higher end robovac needs to consistently navigate a large complex floorplan without bumping narrow chair legs and corners. I'm sure that the IQ is among the worst performers in the real world.
so, just bought this a week ago, mostly on your recommendation...and I have to say, it's just awful! It's run over 15 hours at this point and has yet to map my house and is only at 42% mapped (roughly 900sqft floor plan). Constantly goes over the same areas repeatedly, sometimes cleaning one small section for 30 minutes or even longer. The robot will go back to the dock to recharge (because it can't clean my small floorpan in one charge) then head right back to the same spot afterwards. Had one time where the vacuum searched for the dock for 20 minutes before I got fed up and just took it back myself. Pretty much the largest percentage of reviews online mirror all of this...how did you have one that did everything so perfectly?
I don't know if he was given a pre-production model or something similar, but my experience has been different. I purchased two of these back in October 2019. One directly from shark and the other from kohls. Pros: -Where it goes, it cleans pretty well -Auto-empty base works mostly -Kohl's made the return process super easy. Cons: -Changing the cleaning power level inside the app doesn't always work -It takes many runs to create a map, only to return an incorrect map. -When you try to create rooms, the part where you create a room and the part where you name the room are not consecutive. I ended up naming my living room my kitchen because I couldn't figure out which room I was naming when it came to that step. -After creating and naming rooms, selecting them in the app to clean only that room, the vacuum continues to clean the whole house anyways. -The vacuum completely misses rooms and thinks it is done. It also gets lost or stuck underneath dining room tables. Wasting precious battery life. -The vacuum upstairs would stop and return a "cliff sensor dirty" error when it hit the edge of the steps, instead of just turning around and moving on. -Shark is trying to update the app and firmware on the unit, but their updates do not seem to be solving the problems. -I discovered there is an area inside the auto-empy base with mini "vortex" cones that is very difficult to clean out. -By default, the vacuum returns to the base every 30 minutes to empty out. Sometimes it will not completely empty, then have a clump of hair sticking out of the back-flap on the vacuum where it emptys out. Ultimately, I cannot wait any longer for shark to update their apps and firmware to make a usable product. When I contacted shark customer service, they refused to accept the return since I am a couple weeks past the 90 day return window. Even though I waited patiently for them to update their firmware and app hoping that they could do better. Don't expect "no-go lines of virtual barriers" inside the mapping software any time soon. I hope this convinces at least one person not to buy their product yet. Maybe in a few years when they have worked out all the kinks.
I’ve been looking for a more “recent” review of this vacuum that isn’t 2+ months old, so this is very helpful, thank you! By any chance would you recommend a Roomba over the Shark? I’ve been contemplating between the Shark and the i7...
A few Robot vacuum reviewers mention the Shark IQ currently as of Nov 2019 have several issues and problems. Unit those issues are fixed they recommend not to buy and even returned their Sharks. Couple of those problems include 1) SW mapping requires 30+ runs and even then the mapping is not accurate. 2) There is no bin full sensor on the Shark so it does not know when to go to the emptying base. Shouldn't be too much of an issue for smaller homes but those with pets or kids the bin is small and gets full fast leaving debris on floor or it gets an error. 3) Some customers like having no bags while other customers feel a bag is much cleaner and easier. When emptying my current RVC bin I do need to go outside to empty the bin because I don't want to breath in all the fine dust particles that float around when emptying the bin. I'd imagine there will be a lot of fine dust and debris floating around even when you carefully and slowly try to empty the shark IQ empty base.
Just purchased this after our cheapo iLife died. I can’t believe how many error codes I get from this thing. It’s so much more work than my cheapo. I’ll give it another week, but not sure it’s worth the constant upkeep.
I bought this Shark IQ at Kohls for $329.61 when I used coupons and signed up for their credit. (You get a coupon for 30% off anything when you get a credit account. Then I used 2 more coupons right off their site.) I have had many Roombas and this shark runs along with my Roomba 980. It does a decent job but I would say the Roomba's performance is a little better. The Shark seems to get confused a little more on dark surfaces and doesn't suck up debris as well as the 980. Also, I don't really like how the Shard backs up to dump the bin. It gets confused doing that and sometimes takes quite a while to actually dump after it has moved around a few times. The Roomba also moves in straighter lines and the Shark kind of studders back and forth as it is moving like it has Parkinson's disease. The Shark is worth what I paid. I would have got the S9+ as it is probably the best out there but iRobot is smoking Crack if they think that thing is worth $1400.
The massively reduced upfront cost is awesome but I'll be honest, I strongly prefer bagged vacuums, the cost of bags is negligible but the elimination of the annoying, allergy-triggering emptying process is worth every penny.
Once they add no-go lines, it'll be a game changer at that price. I like the lower profile that the camera gives, but wish you could have talked them into integrating LED lighting for the camera so that it could handle dark rooms.
I traded my Roomba 980 and I was skeptical.at first it was clumsy but after sometime vacuuming it seem to learn my house. I like it so much I bought a second. It's very quiet compared to the 980. It even made it to my shag rug without throwing a code very surprising. I bought two and I still had money left over compared to when I paid for my 980 originally.
I have it, I think he may have been a little bias as some people say, but it's a great robot and it is really good. Just add multiple floors and better software and it would beat the roomba's any day
This feels less like one of your normal videos and more like an infomercial. When you do a competition video with it in the future, I hope that you are more objective and don't do things like use phrasing or omissions to downplay when it is bested by other robots. Don't get me wrong, it seems like a good bot, and I'm good to see competition in the self-emptying market. This video just feels off.
jaenbow It was informative and he did a great job explaining the features. The tests were all in comparison and it did really well against the other ones which he named in each chart. What is so off about? Perhaps you can make your own channel about vacuum robots, I bet it would be amazing content.
All other reviews say it has issues. I don’t hear u talk about that there is no sensor for when the bin is full. So what do you have at self emtying when the bin is full it just stops
You should standardize more tests and let the numbers speak for themselves even more, ie: weigh the amount of dirt picked up in the crevice tests, show how loud each vacuum is at all power levels with a DB meter, show an exact time it takes to finish both the small and big rooms to show relative efficiency with navigation, use a black light reactive dust to show on the hard floor tests to show what is left behind, etc.
@@ellenjarvey1973 I'm calm. He prides himself on objective meadurements, trying to avoid any subjective bias. I am a fan of the channel and was just trying to provide some suggestions. You ok?
Easy to say when you aren't doing all that test engineering, test equipment build out, test plans and the longest, hardest testing part which is testing all those products. I'm very pleased with VACUUM WAR MAN! He goes the extra distance already and doesn't need seagull management flyovers crapping on his significant accomplishments.
@@takipetenakis1697 why so mad? I love him too, I've followed him for years. I was just giving some constructive feedback and suggestions, many of which he is now doing consistently with his videos.
My S9+ works too well with my Google Home mini. I was watching an S9+ review on RU-vid at 4 AM. The guy said, "Okay Google clean xxxx." He was able to activate my Roomba through the Google Home that sits across from me on my couch. My Roomba undocked and was headed on a cleaning run! Lol I was like oh no you don't.
Question you guys may be able to give some input on. I have an issue with both robots that I've owned previously with the front bumper getting scuffed up really bad. They house IR sensors correct? It seems like the more scratched it gets the more the robot tends to ram into things. Such as pushing my trash can around etc. Is it something I should be concerned about?
My daughter and family just got me one last week for my birthday haven’t got into it too seriously but I plan to. With a new adopted Pyrenees and a cockatiel living the empty nest life …. Yes!
I feel like battery life is very important. I don’t use my vacuum (roborock s5) when I’m out of the house because I have an older dog and I don’t want to stress her. My house (recently sold it) was having 79 m2 to clean (taken out all the rooms and spaces I blocked on the app, another important feature) and my vacuum cleaner more or less 1 m2 per minute. This one would have to charge in between which would prolong cleaning because it would devise it into two sessions. I love the self cleaning feature but then again, after a few times I did not have to empty the roborock every time it cleaned. I will see how it works in the apartment I’m renting because the carpet here has an annoyingly long fibers.
Nice Job!!! I have to agree shark IQ dual side brush single Arm slow spinning system is probably the best so far. No scatter of debris Cough Cough Roomba I7 and probably pretty effective around the base board. I wonder how it stacks up to the Roombas, Roborock and the new Deebot 950 and soon to be released 960 🤔
Smart Robot Reviews I would suspect both the Vacuum and Self empty bin pretty loud like the Roomba S9+ because they both have high CFM, 22 for the Roomba and 23 for the Shark. Patiently waiting for mine to arrive 😎
Is it weird that I love this channel, I'm a subscriber, watch every video, know that this is probably the robot vacuum I should buy... and then don't even own one because they're hard to get here in COLOMBIA!!!! :(
One hour is short... I don't want my robot to clean, charge, clean, charge etc all night or all day as my area is big....Some robots are now reaching close to 3 hours. Great design still with the base and its handle!
I love my Roomba BUT I have 5 kids and 2 large dogs. I feel like I'm always emptying out the itty bitty dust bin. I think this brilliant. Hopefully one of these days they will make one to do stairs! Now that would be heavenly.
Can you do a follow up on the software experience, or scheduling this bot, room selection, custom area selection, multiple pass options? I currently have the S5 and it's great but auto empty is almost worth an upgrade but not without a solid software experience to meet the same expectations of S5.
With the camera, how well can it do picking up in the evening when everyone's gone to bed? Does it need to run during the day or with lights on in the home?
I have the S9+. I leave my house and I don't leave any lights on. There is a little light in the living room from the window. But it's dark in my guest bathroom and laundry room. As long as the smart map is 100% mapped, I think the S9+ won't have any problems in the dark.
@@og_werwest You don't need lidar. The robot knows where it is based on camera and WiFi. Not rocket science how the robot operates. How do you think it returns to it's base? It maps out the most efficient route and uses it. It won't change the route unless it's obstructed.
I had a shark iq, it would get lost in my closet if the light was off. Even if I turned on the lights and babysat the device it still did a very poor job mapping. I returned it and went back to my Neato D5. I do miss that self empty base, but in my mind it was far inferior in every other way to the Neato.
@@Slick1020 maybe the sharks implementation of VSLAM is flawed and I don't have any experience with others but the lidar on my Neato is far superior to the Camera based mapping.
I just bought this and it's INSANELY loud. I also have a Shark RV75 and this one is maybe 3 times louder. It is all from the self-cleaning brush roller. When I remove it, the vacuum is very quiet. It seems the yellow fins on the roller are too large and make a loud "thump" on each rotation while cleaning hard floors. Is this the case with others that own one?
The fact this doesn't have a bag in the bin is a huge plus point for me. I don't want to go back to using bags and putting unnecessary junk in landfill.
I got this robot for Christmas this year. It’s been running for about two weeks, every day. Things I love about, it the carpet lines it leaves you get with a freshly cleaned room, it empties itself, it’s not very loud, it texts me when it needs help. Things I don’t like, it gets itself into trouble - it four wheels itself over shoes and moves toys and laundry baskets, and after two weeks of use it’s starting to miss big fur balls. I picked up a piece of fur my dog left and put it right in front of the vacuum and it just combed it into the carpet. Also, the little side brushes are probably going to need to be replaced soon because they are starting to stay bent backward. It’s best to run it everyday so the workload isn’t as bad and I probably need two for the size of my rooms. Still, I love that it empties itself and I have an extra hand helping me stay ahead of the dust and dog hair.
how would the room mapping work on a two story home? do i just take it upstairs and have it clean up there till it runs out of battery or do i take the dock upstairs as well? would moving the charging dock mess up the home mapping? i cant find any info on this anywhere
Sorry the Shark IQ only can remember one floor plan, no multi level mapping memory. You would have to reset the map if you take it up stairs. Lastly it takes 10 full cleaning runs to create a map.
I think they want you to buy an additional robot for additional floors. I bought this product and it does an amazing job on my first floor but we have to use the old upright vacuum in the upstairs because we were more concerned about having the first floor, where the dogs are, clean. I don’t know where the hair and dust comes from but this thing is impressive.
Wow this is a must buy for me. I have 6 Neato vacuums now and have wanted to try the roomba i7+ and s9+ but the price has kept me away. Way to go shark, at this price point I will absolutely be buying this. Great video and can’t wait to see more on this bot!
T- Smooth The main reason I want to try the i7 and S9 is for the self empty which is a game changer for me. Unfortunately they are still too expensive. My Neato Botvacs do as good a job if not better than any roomba except for the S9. It’s all about the self emptying feature for me.
The major downside of this model that I've read about is the slow or failure to create the map. I've heard of 30+ runs to get the map. Has this been fixed with any firmware updates? Also something about the "auto empty" feature not having a sensor to know when to auto empty. Is that necessary, and when does it auto empty? Every full run? Every re-run?
Think again: Just returned my Shark LOW IQ Vacuum. It kept losing the wi-fi signal, got lost in closets, never completed the mapping of our house after more than 30 cleanings. When it did clean, it would do a pretty good job. Called Shark Customer Service line for help and when describing the problem found them to be argumentative. Their customer support is what got me to just return my vacuum cleaner. I could put up with some cliches that a software upgrade might have fixed but I won't put up with attitude from some $8.00 and hour desk jockey.... Hello Neato D-7....
I think you need to add ability to clean at night. I like to schedule night shifts however Shark is not able to do so because of the camera system. It also bumps into the objects unlike Roborock S5 or E35 based on your reviews. I have R100 and it’s doing a pretty great job with picking up stuff. Do you know if Roborock e35 does not depend on the light? Can it clean at night?
I do like that you mentioned the zones. That will be a lot better than the strips that came with it. Do you happen to know if you can turn off the sound? I don't need it to let me know when it docks or when it starts.
I just purchased one of these vacuums during a black Friday deal after owning a roborock e25 for almost a year. My initial impression was not good, it's built cheaply, the integrated voice is tinny and the app barely works. The vacuum is way louder than the roborock, does not sound or move as refined, and doesn't seem to clean as well either. Battery life is worse and recharging time takes 3x longer than the roborock. I am on the fence if I should return it as the *only* redeeming feature is the auto empty base. This review does not do this robot justice to the garbage that it is
Right there with you! I bought one on black friday, $340 deal! Wanted an auto empty for a good price for awhile now. This ain't it. The mapping takes ages, could literally take up to a month with daily cleaning. It can't clean my floor in one pass so it'll clean for about an hour, recharge for 4+ hours and then finish. Overall it's taking about 6 hours to clean my floor which means i'll never get to use it on both floors in the same day. My 2.5 year old xiaomi vaccum does it all in one pass in just over an hour. If you want a good robot at a good price, go buy a roborock S4/5/6. This thing is junk. I'm returning this and waiting for a roborock self empty model.
I agree. I have a roborock s5 that has been rock solid. Learned my home in 1 run and is quiet and efficient. This shark vacuum has been running for 2 months and still has not finalized the map of my home. The only redeeming quality is the self empty. Once roborock comes out with a self empty model, the shark will banished to the basement to clean up spiders.
The side brush may be slow but it still is not as effective as the ones that have three bristles like on the roborocks because there are no other bristles to catch the scattered debris.
Why this is impossible to find this robot in Europe and specialy in France? I've read something about the electricity constraint. We are 220V in France
@@SenorDennis II did, these things are a pita to repack, and take a lot of time to setup, map and charge. Not to mention, there were several fail videos on youtube I didn't mention.
I’ve had the shark for a month now it’s great. I have 4 different sections of my house separated in the map so i can tell it to clean wherever I want whenever I want. They must’ve updated the software after these videos cause it works great now. I had my map after probably 5 house cleaning
@@SenorDennis All I can say is you are the only one currently saying this. Meanwhile my roomba is doing fine with selective room map cleaning, no go zones and no virtual walls, and also auto empties.
Yeah when I got mine I also watched all the videos talking bad about it so I kept the box ready to return it but I’ve had no issues with mine at all. I’m just a guy sharing my experience though!
Roborock s4 is not available anywhere to purchase even from China. The shark one is available on shark (Canada) amazon but under two completely different prices but same vendor. One is 699$, other was 850 then increased to 943$. The 699 is on preorder and the other is available now but the same vacuum. Availability of these robot vacuums other than iRobot is sporadic with inconsistent prices. You would think they would make it available at their amazon website immediately...
03:45 The hair appears to be stuck at the entrance to the suction collecting tank ? I have an English springer spaniel dog (the dog is the main reason to buy vacum cleaner) , He drops a lot of hair long and short, will this cleaner handle it?
Of course not, but the beauty of robots is they do the work for you and if done frequently, I doubt that much dirt gets deep into the carpet. And I'd argue they do a more thorough job than most people do, covering more areas. I'm not getting rid of my high end corded vacuum, but I'm glad I don't have to use it for every cleaning.
@@arevee9429 Now that I think about it after looking at my Felix it could be the edge cleaning sapping some airflow. And there could have been suction leaks or wrong adjustment on either test vacuum.
I totally agree this review is a little biased, but hey, Shark definitely nailed the auto empty system. The main gripe i have with the Irobot version is there bag that costs so much so i stayed away from it.
7 or 8 years ago samsung makes for it's new Samsung Navibot S cyclonic emptying bin with self cleaning brushroll too, and 9 years ago Ecovacs make Deepoo d76, which has voice and dancing function (it can dance on some music and say some words about vacuuming) and it has automatic cleaning base too, but you can pick from charging base only vacuum with bagless system, connect into it hose and you have got normal vacuum, i love that Deepoo, and sometimes i want to own it. So i don't know why is everyone excited from theese really old systems, if i remember right that Deepoo costs in europe 400$, which is not much for that vacuum, so for cheap price you can get robot vacuum with display, voice and dancing module, self emptying dock and normal vacuum cleaner
@@RobotMasters rly? Where? This model is 1 year sold, cool :D, by the way you get with that cleaning base a case with hose and you can have got regular 230v vacuum cleaner for curtains, or sofas, i'm not sure, if D77 has voice function, i know, Deepoo d76 has voice function, and cyclone cleaning base, but great deal! I finally got the d73!
I purchased for the super low price of 270 at khols and it's a POS. I've had it for a week. It never finds its base and one time it literally fell a part and there was an Easter egg hunt finding all the pieces to put it back together.
I am returning my Shark LOW IQ robot to Bed Bath. After about 10 runs it still failed to map the upstairs. It frequently fails to return to dock. When I set it about a foot from the dock, it still takes about 10 minutes to find its way home. It’s really a shame.
Be careful. Now a day people know their stuff and will hit hard if you conveniently forgot some info.... That being said I understand the need for sponsor. It is just you need to stay very credible. This is the key of your business brand as a tester
I'm not sure where some of these negative comments are coming from. We've been using the Shark IQ since Christmas and it works just he says in this video. My wife is a clean freak, literally daily. She's picked a broom one time since, and that was because of the mess in the floor after taking the trees down. We've got 4 dogs in the house, so if you read someone here say it won't pick up the hair, they'd be wrong. Zero hair in the roller either. I can't really comment on carpeted floors, but it does fine on the few rugs we have. If this guy didn't clean well, it would have been boxed up and taken back. I have two negatives, first it likes to climb way too much. I had to put boundary strips down after a couple of battles with the tree stands. I'm sure there are inclinometers built in that would prevent this with a firmware upgrade. Second, the app needs to be polished up a bit. It's a little buggy, but it works. Thanks for the review, I didn't see any bias, it works like you said.
The current vacuum they have based on this model is a great hardware, but the horrible software breaks it completely. You can tell it to go clean a specific room 5 times, and maybe 1 of those times it will go to the correct room. This is a commonly reported issue they refuse to address.
Is it normal to feel very minimal exhaust air coming out of this shark while it operates? My Neato used to pump out substantially more air than this unit. It dies seem to be working well though. I hope you will take the time to answer
If I did whole house, never found home base. I like the auto empty, but the screen still was not clean in the dust bin. Returned it, purchased a Neato D7, no problems so far. Like the it always finds the base!
Yep it’s good for iRobot, they had no competition before and now wow underdogs are coming up, especially they selling their filters side brush and extractors at a crazy price. Not to mention that their ‘’Keep Away Zoné’ is still in beta for months now only few people had their Keep Away Zone.
T- Smooth I own 2 roombas i7 and S9 and none have the keep out zones yet. I’ve called iRobot and they told the Keep Out Zones features was pushed only in very few robots since its in BETA TESTING now. If you don’t know what you talking about shut up yourself! The update will NOT be available to the public anytime soon. I was told in around 8 to 12 months before they release it officially. Check their web site by yourself. homesupport.irobot.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/19549/~/roomba®-i-series-firmware-release-notes
All i read is bad things about this, software blows takes forever to map home and doesn't have Detection full bin. If they improve software by Christmas I'll be buying a new vacumm but if it does anything that is to start price war and cut irobots price well under $1g
